John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

We shall yet place an iron belt from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a railroad from Halifax to Nootka Sound …

Railways are my politics.

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

Railroads have more than realized the fabulous conception of the eastern imagination which picture the genii as transporting inhabited palaces through the air. They take a train of inhabited palaces from the Atlantic coast, and with marvelous swiftness deposit it on the shores that are washed by the Pacific seas.

You can ride from England to China on regular lines of steamships and railroads without once passing from the protecting hollow of Mr. Morgan’s hand.

Let us complete the grand design of Columbus, by putting Europe and Asia into communication, and that to our advantage, through the heart of our country. Let us give to his ships, converted into cars, a continuous course, unknown to all former times. Let us make the iron road, and make it from sea to sea.